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#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln

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Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep497-sc See below for , and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

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OUTLINE:

  • (00:00) – Introduction
  • (00:34) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
  • (08:52) – Unifying the laws of nature
  • (23:23) – Einstein, special relativity, and general relativity
  • (40:31) – Electroweak force
  • (52:13) – How particle colliders work
  • (1:10:16) – Higgs boson discovery
  • (1:20:35) – Theory of everything
  • (1:50:20) – Physics of empty space
  • (1:57:45) – Antimatter
  • (2:18:35) – Dark energy
  • (2:22:23) – Dark matter
  • (2:50:59) – Future of physics

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